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This week I had the extreme pleasure of hearing noted librarian, author and advocate for information rights, Nancy Kranich, former ALA president, speak about her recent work regarding the Information Commons with the Free Expression Policy Project. I was expecting a discussion about copyright and access, but I got a lesson in democracy and political activity.
Two years ago, after hearing Brewster Kahle discuss his idea of a digital
library, I wrote about the " Digital
Library for the Planet." Now, after hearing Brewster again, this
time at Seybold, discuss what he is doing now and then attending NEDCC's
"Off the Wall and Online" conference, I thought it was time to revisit
this subject. It is my firm belief that what might seem like a snowball
to some of ....
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Have you reached the next stage of managing a digital image collection? This is the stage where your superiors acknowledge your success by asking you to now expand the system for the whole institution. This is your golden opportunity, but you do not know their search habits or for what purposes they want to use .....
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The first thing to understand is that digital resolution is expressed
in two ways, the amount of information and the precision of information.
The second is that not all images require the same resolution for the
same appearance
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